Deca Durabolin is perhaps the best marketed and easy to get steroid out there and it has always enjoyed immense popularity. It's fairly accurate to state that safe for Dianabol, Deca Durabolin is by far the most used steroid.
Drug Class:
Injectable Anabolic Steroid Pharmaceutical.
Name:
Nandrolone / Nor-testosterone (as undecanoate)
Brand Name:
Deca Durabolin.
Average Dose:
Men 300-800 mg/week.....Women 50-100 mg/week.
Active Life:
4-16 days.
Acne:
Yes, in higher dosages or sensitive individuals.
Water Retention:
Yes, but less than testosterone.
High Blood Pressure:
Dose dependant.
Liver Toxic:
No
Aromatization:
Aromatization:
Low, converts to less active not estrogens.
DHT Conversion: No, converts to NOR-DHT with low activity.
Other Info: Highly anabolic/moderate androgenic effects.
Deca Durabolin Characteristics:
The deca/d-bol stack, it is often suggested, is where the practice of stacking comes from. But what does it owe its popularity to? Well, Deca Durabolin has some unique qualities that make it unlike any other steroid known to man.
Deca Durabolin (nandrolone decanoate) is more commonly known as the base steroid 19Nor-testosterone. As this structure would indicate it's like testosterone in appearance but for one small change the absence of a carbon atom in the 19th position. This gives it a number of very distinct features. This is because it is the only steroid that is affected by the 5-alpha-reductase (5AR) enzyme in a way that makes it even less androgenic.
Unlike testosterone which forms DHT (dihydrotestosterone) at the 5AR enzyme, a hormone 3-4 times as potent as an androgen receptor stimulator, nandrolone forms DHN (dihydro nandrolone) a hormone that is even less suited than the already mild parent hormone for agonizing the androgen receptor.
Those two features combined make Deca Durabolin a very safe bet for people at risk for prostate hypertrophy, acne, and aggravated male pattern hair loss. At the same time, it's estimated that Deca Durabolin is 2.4 times as anabolic as testosterone1, on a gram for gram basis.
Due to the many different ways that testosterone mediates anabolism, one has to take that statement with a serious grain of salt, but it does establish Deca Durabolin as a potent muscle builder and performance enhancer with a comparatively safe character, at least androgenically speaking. This androgenic mildness is perhaps the greatest reason for its popularity.
But due to the lack of immediate anabolic activity, Deca Durabolin is rarely used alone. It's the most known and sought-after product for use as a base steroid, to use in conjunction with more androgenic specimens to enhance the results without increasing androgenic side-effects to a serious degree.
The ways in which Deca Durabolin exerts its anabolic effects are two-fold. First of all, it's a good mediator for nitrogen retention. When nitrogen retention is high, in essence, it means that the cells are taking up more nitrogen than they are releasing. Why is this a good thing though? Well, every amino acid has what is known as an amino group, which contains nitrogen. When nitrogen is retained it means there is a high concentration of amino acids in a cell, which in turn positively affects the rate of protein synthesis. Since every tissue in the body is made from protein, including muscle, this means that muscle hypertrophy is facilitated. A second factor is an estrogen.
While Deca Durabolin's rate of aromatization is considerably smaller than that of testosterone, it does convert to a particularly powerful form of estrogen?. This has been noted to increase glycogen storage, growth hormone release, and upgrade the androgen receptor in some tissues. In this case, it also entails agonizing of aldosterone, but more on that later.
On an interesting note, the 5-alpha-reduced versions enlighten us as to the anabolic effect of Deca Durabolin as opposed to that of testosterone. Since Deca Durabolin is weakened at the 5AR enzyme and testosterone becomes notably stronger at the 5AR enzyme it makes sense that testosterone would be a better anabolic mediator in tissues with a high concentration of this enzyme and that Deca Durabolin would be the stronger of the two in tissues with a lower count of 5AR enzyme1b.
Because 5AR is not as well represented in muscle tissue it accounts for the finding that Deca Durabolin is 2.4 times more anabolic when it comes directly to muscular hypertrophy. It also explains why its less of a risk for androgenic side-effects such as benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) and androgenetic alopecia (MPB). Both the prostate and the scalp namely have high concentrations of the 5AR enzyme.
Those two features combined make Deca Durabolin a very safe bet for people at risk for prostate hypertrophy, acne, and aggravated male pattern hair loss. At the same time, it's estimated that Deca Durabolin is 2.4 times as anabolic as testosterone1, on a gram for gram basis.
Due to the many different ways that testosterone mediates anabolism, one has to take that statement with a serious grain of salt, but it does establish Deca Durabolin as a potent muscle builder and performance enhancer with a comparatively safe character, at least androgenically speaking. This androgenic mildness is perhaps the greatest reason for its popularity.
But due to the lack of immediate anabolic activity, Deca Durabolin is rarely used alone. It's the most known and sought-after product for use as a base steroid, to use in conjunction with more androgenic specimens to enhance the results without increasing androgenic side-effects to a serious degree.
The ways in which Deca Durabolin exerts its anabolic effects are two-fold. First of all, it's a good mediator for nitrogen retention. When nitrogen retention is high, in essence, it means that the cells are taking up more nitrogen than they are releasing. Why is this a good thing though? Well, every amino acid has what is known as an amino group, which contains nitrogen. When nitrogen is retained it means there is a high concentration of amino acids in a cell, which in turn positively affects the rate of protein synthesis. Since every tissue in the body is made from protein, including muscle, this means that muscle hypertrophy is facilitated. A second factor is an estrogen.
While Deca Durabolin's rate of aromatization is considerably smaller than that of testosterone, it does convert to a particularly powerful form of estrogen?. This has been noted to increase glycogen storage, growth hormone release, and upgrade the androgen receptor in some tissues. In this case, it also entails agonizing of aldosterone, but more on that later.
On an interesting note, the 5-alpha-reduced versions enlighten us as to the anabolic effect of Deca Durabolin as opposed to that of testosterone. Since Deca Durabolin is weakened at the 5AR enzyme and testosterone becomes notably stronger at the 5AR enzyme it makes sense that testosterone would be a better anabolic mediator in tissues with a high concentration of this enzyme and that Deca Durabolin would be the stronger of the two in tissues with a lower count of 5AR enzyme1b.
Because 5AR is not as well represented in muscle tissue it accounts for the finding that Deca Durabolin is 2.4 times more anabolic when it comes directly to muscular hypertrophy. It also explains why its less of a risk for androgenic side-effects such as benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) and androgenetic alopecia (MPB). Both the prostate and the scalp namely have high concentrations of the 5AR enzyme.
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